INFLUENCE IN MUSIC ON SOCIETY

 How does music influence us ?

Recently in class we were having a speech presentation on three topics which where given but mostly my fellow student presented on the issue that “should condoms be contributed to our high school pupils”. Most of them agreed as they mention that we as the youth of nowadays are exposed to a lot of things like:

·         Social media which teach us about different issues that we fail to have explanations from our parents because social media does have facts on them.

·         The media which expose issues on sex, money and alcohol which as the youth adapt to, to look like them.

·         And the most surprisingly influential tool music which the youth listen to for example songs like sexual seduction by snoop doggy

some of the rappers that influenced in alcohol, sex,
drugs and money source: Culies Finest Rappers

     One in three popular songs contains explicit references to sex, drug or alcohol use, according to a new report in The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. That means kids are receiving about 35 references to substance abuse for every hour of music they listen to according to this research.

Studies have long shown that media messages have a pronounced impact on childhood risk behaviours. Exposure to images of smoking in movies influences a child’s risk for picking up the habit. Alcohol use in movies and promotions is also linked to actual alcohol use. more on the influence of music.
“Adolescents are heavily exposed to lyrics describing degrading sex in popular music, and this exposure is associated with early sexual experience among them in an urban population of youth at high risk for risky sexual behaviour.

These results provide further support for the need for additional research and educational intervention in this area” quote by Brian A. Primack

This means that we don’t have control on the social media, music and other media influence on the youth of today, so I think it is better to teach them on these issues before they adapt to them in the social media or music. We as organisation or companies especial industries that allow such music to be release, we need to make sure that we support campaigns like rap-it-up that have educational system for the youth.